How International labour standards help ensure rights of all workers

Miranda Fajerman, Specialist on International Labour Standards calls on legislative responses and political commitment to tackle structural discrimination and inequality.

Date issued: 23 October 2017 | Size/duration: 00:02:57


More than 99 per cent of children are covered under the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, C182 after India ratified the convention. Structural discrimination and inequalities though, continue to plague the region. Miranda Fajerman, Specialist on International Labour Standards, highlights the challenges to the fundamental principles and rights at work in the region, which include child labour, forced and bonded labour, discrimination and freedom of association and collective bargaining.